They messed up my dogs paperwork (said she was a totally different age than she actually was), and ultimately, I believe that going there led indirectly to the death of mine and my fiance's dog. Appro... Read More
They messed up my dogs paperwork (said she was a totally different age than she actually was), and ultimately, I believe that going there led indirectly to the death of mine and my fiance's dog. Approximately three weeks ago she brought our furry family member there to be spayed and vaccinated. Exactly two weeks later, she (our dog) started having seizures in clusters 5 times or more a day and they progressively got worse. She wouldnt eat. She barely drank water. She couldnt stand. And after her seizures she stayed in a drunken-like stupor, swaying and falling all over the place and generally unable to walk. My fiance brought her in the first day our dog had seizures. When the vet saw her, he came in, (seemed like a genuinely kind vet) and checked her out, ran some tests and sent me home with phenobarbital (medication for seizures) to hopefully calm her seizures down. They persisted. My fiance brought her in three more times and was given a different vet each time (which was odd to me being that human practitioners generally see the same patient and dont pass their patient around to other doctors with every visit). Each of the different vets told us different things. At first the general hypothesis was epilepsy, although from how severely she acted, and from the fact that the phenobarbital wasnt working at all, I thought it was really callous for them to simply expect us to keep bringing her there when they clearly couldnt help her. I called West Vet for a second opinion but was told I needed a referral. Finally, this week they referred me to West Vet but by then it was too late and our pup was borderline comatose. We brought her into the ICU where she saw a specialist, and they kept her there all day and night, running tests and trying to stop the seizures. My fiancé and I were a total wreck. We called almost every hour that she was there, checking on her. She died early this morning, and I was notified that the test results came back that she had a combination of meningitis and encephalitis. The specialist told me she might have had a chance if we could have started treatment earlier, but unfortunately, that didnt happen because the vets over at Ada Veterinary waited too long to send us over. It kills me that MAYBE, just maybe, she would still be alive right now, if theyd caught on and sent us to West Vet earlier, rather than just continuously expect us to keep coming to them when they clearly could do nothing. Whatever the cause of the auto immune diseases she was diagnosed with, the result was the same: my fiance cradling the lifeless body of a family member who meant more to her than almost anything else. We wasted our dog's life by taking her here and totally relying on their judgement. Read Less